Eyeglass-guard.



L. F. ADT.

EYEGLASS GUARD.

APPLICATION men JULY 13. m2.

1 ,239,245. Patented Sept. 4, 1917".

mlllllllllllfllllllll l UNITED STATES LED 1'. ADT, 01 ALBANY, NEW YORK.

EYEGLASS-GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1917.

Original application filed December 80, 1909, Serial No. 535,543. Patent No. 1,103,240, dated July 14, 1914. Divided and this application filed July 13, 1912. Serial No. 709,208.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEO F. AM, of A1- bany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eyeglass-Guards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the referencenumerals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to eyeglasses, and it has for its object to provide a simple, neat and convenient eyeglass guard such as constitutes the gripping portion that engages the nose of the wearer to hold the eyeglasses in place. Further objects of my invention are to provide a guard that can be cheaply manufactured but will be capable pf being easily adjusted in all of the ways required to render the guard universally applicable to the noses of different wearers having different facial characteristics:- To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations of parts all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features beingpointed out'in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of an eyeglass mounting provided with a nose guard constructed in accordance with and illustratingrone embodiment of my invention;

ig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the same mounting; v

Fig. 3 is a transverse, central, vertical section through the eyeglass bridge showing one of the guards in side elevation, and

Fig. 4 is a detailview of one of the guards detached showing the latter in elevation from the opposite side.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several figures indicate the same parts.

My improved guard is applicable to the finger piece type of mounting and in the present instance I have illustrated it in connection with such a construction, being that also shown and described in my prior application for patent on eyeglass mountings, filed December 30, 1909, Serial No. 535,543, of which application this application is a division.

Referring therefore only generally to the mounting as a whole it may comprise the usual rigid bridging portion 1 having lens attaching portions 2 at the ends thereof and pliable loops or portions 3 connecting each end of the bridge with its respective lens attaching portion for purposes of pupilary adjustment. Headed pivot pins 4are carried at each side by brackets 5 which project outwardly from the ends of the bridge into the loops or pliable portions and on these pivots swing the nose guards 6.

Each guard, in the present embodiment, is formed from a single piece of flat stock that embodies a lever portion 6 provided at its forward end with an outwardly extending finger piece 7 preferably connected thereto by a downward or vertical bend 8 and also provided at its rear end with a forwardly opening adjustable loop 9 formed by bends transversely of the flat faces of the stock and connected to the upper edge of an outwardly extending arm 10 which, in turn, is connected by a horizontal bend 11 with the forward portion or ed e of the nose engaging member 12 prefera ly having upper and lower nose engaging surfaces 13 and14. It will be noted that the loop 9 is vertically arranged below the upper surface of the lever 6 so that said loop is hidden by the connecting portion 3 of the mounting. This loop 9 permits the nose engaging member to be raised or lowered or to be moved in or out, and further, to bemoved forward or backward to agree with the facial characteristics of the wearer, said movements being effected with pliers orotherwise in a manner well known by skilled Opticians. The nose engaging member may also be tilted toconform to the forward taper of the nose, this being accomplished by ,adjustin the same about the bond 11 as an axis. a ch guard turns above the general support offered by the bridge and connecting parts of he mounting upon its hearing or pivot 4c in accordance with the usual mode of operation of finger piece eyeglasses, the lever 6 being provided in one edge with a laterally openmg bearing recess 15 permitting the guards to be attached to or separated from the mounting by a lateral movement, and in order to strengthen the lever in proximity to the recess, the opposite edge thereof is preferably bent upwardly to provide a longitudinally extending flange 16 opposite said recess, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 4.

The springs for positioning the guards in at the the particular embodiment illustrated; are located upon the under side of the support and comprise in each instant-lanai ofl set cdil 17 supported by one extremity in a tube or securing device 18 on the mounting beneath the bracket 5 While the other end extends to the otlier side'of the-pivot of the guard that the spring operates and engages one arm of the guard lever as at 19.

Of course, it is to be understood that my improved guard is-not limited in its use to eyeglasses ofithe finger piece type, though it isvpartioularly adapted for such use inasmuch as it, can be blanked-- outin one piece from: the sheet of material used for the pivoted guard lever,,including its finger piece. The disposal :of thefiat bend 9-10-11 constitutingithe connection of the upper and lower pads 13 and 1:4 with the supporting arm is simple of formation andtho disposal of the-parts. is such that provisionismade for everyone of the ordinary adjustments that the Optician is called upon to make ineludingmp ward and downward bodily disp-acement as by compressing or expanding the: loop 9yupward and downward tilting by distortion ofthis loop laterally; forward or rearward spaeinghby similar distortion of theiloo ,9 or moreprefenably by adjustment liendll and also inward or outward setting of! the nose engaging portions by lateral'distortion of-the loop 9 to cause the pads to grip the nose to agreater or less degree with a given throw of the guard lever, or generall to fit noses of greater or less breadth. ith all this,-and particularly in a fingerpiece mounting, the means which permit these adaptations are so arranged tliatthey are inconspicuous with the mountingrinr normal position upon the nose of the wearer t I 'claim as my, invention; I

1. Anose guard for eyeglasses embod-ying. a supporting arm formed into a forwardly 4-5. opemng adjustable loop, having oneend connected to an outwardly extending. member at; the front edge ofilthe nose pad 2.. A nose guard. for eyeglasses comprising a nose engaging: pad having: an arm-pro- 54) ceedl ng outwardly from the forward edge thereof, thence rearwardly, thence forwardly substantially arallel to the rearwardly extendrng pom H to form a forwardly opening adjustable loop.

3; A'IiOSe guard formed of flat stock embodying a lever having a finger piece at its forward end, a vertically arranged loop at its rear end loeatedsubstamtiallyin :thevertioal plane of the lever formed by bends flatwise of the stock, and a nose bearing memher having an outwardly extending arm conneetetlnto the edge thereof by a bend, said arm being an integral continuation of the loop and apart ofa uniformly distortabl'e length of stock cotnpr'isingthe lever, the two arms of the loop, and'the-saidnose bearing arm.

4; A-nose guard embodying"- an integral structure comprising a rearwardly extendingsupporting arm and upper and lower nose bearing pads, the pads beingconnected to the arm by a forwardly opening vertieally disposed adjustable loop and to each other independently of the arm.

5. A nose guard comprising a'nose-engag ingmember embodying upperand lowernose bearingpads, a lever formed of flat stock havingits flat faces horizontally arranged,

its-forward end provided witha finger piece and abearingibetween its ends,- and anadjustable and vertically arranged loop con nectin'g the nose engaging member and the lever and located rearwardly of the forward edge of the former, said-loop beings'formed in one piece-with the lever, and-the bearing pads beingiconnected to each other independently of thesaid loop.

6. In an eyeglassmounting, the eombina tion with a support, of afloperating' arm pivotally mounted upon said supportfintermediate its length and provided in the rear of the support with a loop! with the plane thereof in the dieeotion' of the length osf the arm andwith its-terminal extended-transversely to the plane of I the loop.-

LEO F; ATJT.

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